☿ial

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☿ial (not comparable)

  1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of mercurial.
    • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 24:
      make a light dew of ☿ial vapour arise.